Remembering your first lunchbox

Yesterday afternoon DJ Marissa on Fly 92.3 was asking listeners to call in and describe their first (or one of their first) lunchboxes.

I remember lunch box shopping being a huge deal when I was a kid and, the day I got the metal Care Bear box I carried it around the house, opened and closed the latches and turned the Thermos over in my hands.

Yes! I loved it. It was a red plaid metal box with matching thermos. I loved it because my grandparents had a picnic case the same plaid. Another favorite was my Dr. Kildare lunchbox(accompanied by my matching Dr. Kildare blouse that was once a rage).

My first was a “Six Million Dollar Man” lunchbox in 1978. It had a depiction of Lee Majors as Steve Austin ripping a tree out of the ground.

But my best lunchbox was the one I got the following year. It was originally a “How the West Was Won” lunchbox, but I soon had to covered with so many stickers that you couldn’t see the lunchbox anymore. It was a sneak preview of what my locker would be like in high school.

My first lunchbox was Holly Hobby. I loved her so much – until Strawberry Shortcake came along. She was on my second lunchbox and next was the Cabbage Patch Kids. After the Cabbage Patch Kids – I thought I was too cool for a lunchbox and made my mom switch to brown bags.

I had a Ghostbusters lunchbox that I won at a local Stewarts raffle. I don’t think I had one before that. Now my lunch box is a small mini-mate cooler that I use to go on picnic or take to work or college.

Wonder Woman and Shawn Cassidy…what memories this brings back!
@#9, CC, my kids just saw Josie and the Pussycats on a Scooby Doo rerun and thought they were such a cool “new” thing…how surprised where they when I could sing their song!

Mommy D- OMG – I forgot about Shaun Cassidy, how in the world could I do that?!! Had him!!! That’s too funny about the kids!! my nieces & nephews think I am nuts becasue I know all of the words to the “old” songs! Little buggers!!! LOL!

pretty sad…I can’t even remember if I had a lunchbox or if I brown bagged it everyday….but..growing up in Albany and attending grammar school that was on the next street over…I could have carried my sandwich and snacks in my hands if they have invented glad baggies at that time

I had a Road Runner & Wiley Coyote lunchbox (1970) and my best friend had one with a Nurse. I can’t remember that nurse’s name, but she had a tv show back then.
Remember if you dropped the thermos, having glass shards in your chocolate milk? Yummy. But, they sold replacement thermos innards, and the problem was solved.

I can’t remember which was one was first, but I remember one year having a light pink Huggabunch lunchbox and another year having a magenta (my fave color at the time) Barbie lunchbox. I used to love picking out new lunchboxes and I can still remember how they and the matching thermos’ smelled (a very distinct, plastic-y smell)!